Scotland's Brick Manufacturing Industry

Below – 19/05/1875 – Glasgow Herald – Cowdenhill Brickfield to let. Below – 26/09/1879 – Glasgow Herald – Brick work for sale at Cowdenhill ( Drumchapel?)

Found Note the 2 x reversed ‘N’s. Robert and William Horn, Garscadden and  Yoker Brick Works, Glasgow. . . .  

Found by Michael Fallone in the Glasgow area. Bell, Hornsby & Co. 197 Pollokshaws Rd; brickfields, Polmadie, Glasgow, Langlands, Govan, Blairdardie, Duntocher. . . . .

Stevenson Bros – Brickmakers, Millcroft and Polmadie Brickfields, Rutherglen rd.; also Garscadden Brick and Tile Works, Drumchapel. Garscadden Brick and Tile Works run by Robert & William Horn of Yoker (died 1875 and 1896 respectively) and latterly run as Blairdardie Brick & Tile Works by the Stevensons at Lock 35 on the Forth and Clyde Canal closed…

Found in Glasgow by Michael Fallone. Stevenson Bros –  Brickmakers, Millcroft and Polmadie Brickfields, Rutherglen rd.; also Garscadden Brick and Tile Works, Drumchapel. . . . .

07/10/1879 – Glasgow Herald – Theft of oats from the stables at Polmadie Brick Works, Govan occupied by William and Thomas Stevenson. Below – 1888  –  Polmadie Brick Works. Below – 1892 – 1894 – Polmadie Brick Works. 1893 – A letterhead references Bell Horsby and Co operating the Langlands Brickworks. Below – 1893 – Polmadie Brick…

This magnificent example is the the possession of the National Museum Scotland Collection Centre, Edinburgh. Thomas Gilmour, Kilchattan Tile and Brickworks, Kingarth, Isle of Bute. . . .    

Found by Andrew Gemmell in the Milngavie, Glasgow area. Robert and William Horn, Garscadden and  Yoker Brick Works,  Glasgow . . . . The lettering is slightly ‘thicker’ than this other version I have.  

Garscadden Brick and Tile Works, Canal Bank, Bowling, Glasgow. Written by Eric Flack and reproduced by kind permission.  It is a fascinating read  – “The manufacture of bricks was another local industry in which two of the brickworks produced terracotta type bricks from locally dug clay. These were Horne’s at Elderslie Dry Dock at the…

Found by Andrew Gemmell in the Milngavie area, Glasgow. Note the N or Horn looks like it was never stamped. Robert and William Horn, Garscadden and  Yoker Brick Works,  Glasgow. . . .